Former heptathlete Kelly Sotherton has revealed she missed two doping tests during her career. The British Olympic medalist said she has nothing to hide and thinks it is important for explain why a doping test was missed as people can assume you are doping.
2. Former heptathlete Kelly Sotherton has revealed she
missed two doping tests during her career. The British
Olympic medalist said she has nothing to hide and thinks
it is important for explain why a doping test was missed as
people can assume you are doping.
Sotherton, the former heptathlete who won bronze at the
2004 Athens Olympics, called for all athletes to make their
missed tests public and also remarked that there should be
more transparency surrounding missed tests. Under UK
Anti-Doping rules, whereabouts must be provided by
athletes for an hour a day, every day. If the athlete is not
available for testers three times within the space of a year,
a doping offence is constituted.
3. The 2006 Commonwealth Games champion was sidelined by her
British teammate Jessica Ennis who had became the dominant force in
heptathlon, after she won the World and European titles. Sotherton
announced her retirement after competing at the IAAF Combined
Events Challenge in Italy and said she knew immediately that the
injury was serious enough to end her dream of competing in the
London Olympics. Sotherton added she will be extending her support
to former rival Jessica Ennis and backed her to claim gold for Great
Britain in the heptathlon at London 2012 Olympics.
Born on 13 November 1976 in Newport (Isle of Wight), Kelly Sotherton
played netball for the Isle of Wight as a teenager and became a
member of Birchfield Harriers athletics club in 1998. In 2002, Kelly
made her senior British team debut and gained international
recognition in 2004 when she surprised one and all by unexpectedly
winning a bronze medal at the Summer Olympics in Athens.
